Certified Organic

The Nature & Progrès Label

The Nature & Progrès label is official recognition that a product is outstanding in that it combines ethical production with intrinsic qualities. The label certifies that the company manufacturing the product complies with standards of fair trade and refuses animal testing. It is a guarantee of the company's ethical approach.

ECOCERT

ECOCERT is France's largest inspection authority and is responsible for 80% of the organic certificates issued. All the inspection authorities, ECOCERT, Quality France, Ulase, Agrocert, Aclave and certpaq, are private bodies approved by the state authorities and have no links with any commercial or union structure. Their role is both to ensure that products and imports comply with standards and to make sure that the various operators working in the field are aware of the regulations in force.

Every Florame essential oil has an individual batch number. Using this number, which is printed on every Florame bottle, you can trace the origin of the essential oil it contains.

The AB logo

The AB logo stamp on a product or inspected, certified essential oil, guarantees that it is incontestably organic. However, under French law, the term "issu de culture biologique" ("produced from organically grown crops") may only be used for raw materials or processed products intended for human ingestion.

If it cannot be claimed that an "organic" product is intended for use as food, it cannot use the AB logo label . Therefore blends of organic essential oils designed to perfume the air or for massage may simply give a list of the organic ingredients they contain and the name of the certifying authority, but cannot use the AB logo. Some authorities such as Nature & Progrès get over this loophole in the law by staking their own reputations and applying their own logo.